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Sheriff Mackie went on to explain that in devising an expanded role for Chairs, it "led us to recognise that, especially if the Chair was going to be a consistent presence in that child's journey through the Hearings System, it would be difficult for that role to be fulfilled by somebody who was not doing it as a job," before outlining that "what is lost in the bill is the cohesive structure of the Chair's role in particular and the issues around grounds hearings, which would have produced...